Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias has pressed EU defence ministers in Brussels for more warships and resources to strengthen European naval operations in the Red Sea and wider Middle East, arguing that threats to European security come from both the north and south. Speaking at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Dendias called for …
An appeals court rejected mitigating factors for three former senior officials irrevocably convicted over the deadly Mati fire in 2018, following a prosecutor’s recommendation. Source link
Italian photographer Umberto Pizzi died on Tuesday, September 29, at the age of 89, after a decades-long career photographing international film stars and continuing to work with newspapers and news websites until just days before his death. Italian media described Pizzi as one of the last paparazzi of Rome’s “Dolce Vita”, the golden era when …
This is not the first time law enforcement authorities have intervened on the island of Mykonos in a bid to crack down on rampant zoning and construction violations. Source link
Associate Professor Magdalena Simonis AM, a GP, researcher and women’s health advocate, was named a Change Agent. Criminal defence lawyer Lauren Aphrodite Cassimatis was named a Trailblazer. Gabrielle Williams, Minister for Women and Gender Equality, inducted 27 women and gender-diverse people at the Arts Centre Melbourne on 23 September. The roll is 25 years old. …
Credit rating agency Moody’s has revised the outlooks on the long-term deposit ratings of Alpha Bank and Piraeus Bank to Positive from Stable, while affirming both banks’ ratings at Baa1. Source link
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the Thyranoixia — the blessing of the doors — at the Church of Saint Haralambos in Bebek, Constantinople, on Sunday 27 September. The 19th-century church on the European shore of the Bosphorus has been the centre of Bebek’s Greek Orthodox parish. The parish committee led the works. Businessman Byron Nikolaidis, a …
Cyprus’ Finance Ministry has said it is preparing additional cost-of-living measures to present to Cabinet for approval. Source link
A painting that left Florida more than a century ago is hanging in a church on Aegina. Immigrants from Aegina gave the work — a religious icon — to St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tarpon Springs in 1910. The Gulf Coast town was, and is, a centre of Greek sponge-diving families. The church is …
The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) is strengthening efforts to combat cross-border economic crime through a new strategic partnership with UK authorities, including HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the Home Office and the National Crime Agency (NCA). Source link